diff --git a/nalgebra-sparse/src/csc.rs b/nalgebra-sparse/src/csc.rs
index 65e1c409..a691e1d4 100644
--- a/nalgebra-sparse/src/csc.rs
+++ b/nalgebra-sparse/src/csc.rs
@@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ impl<T> CscMatrix<T> {
 
     /// Mutable column access for the given column index, or `None` if out of bounds.
     #[inline]
+    #[must_use]
     pub fn get_col_mut(&mut self, index: usize) -> Option<CscColMut<T>> {
         self.cs.get_lane_mut(index).map(|lane| CscColMut { lane })
     }
@@ -691,6 +692,7 @@ impl<'a, T> CscColMut<'a, T> {
     }
 
     /// Returns a mutable entry for the given global row index.
+    #[must_use]
     pub fn get_entry_mut(&mut self, global_row_index: usize) -> Option<SparseEntryMut<T>> {
         self.lane.get_entry_mut(global_row_index)
     }
diff --git a/nalgebra-sparse/src/csr.rs b/nalgebra-sparse/src/csr.rs
index 86b4272c..c2f9b669 100644
--- a/nalgebra-sparse/src/csr.rs
+++ b/nalgebra-sparse/src/csr.rs
@@ -331,6 +331,7 @@ impl<T> CsrMatrix<T> {
 
     /// Mutable row access for the given row index, or `None` if out of bounds.
     #[inline]
+    #[must_use]
     pub fn get_row_mut(&mut self, index: usize) -> Option<CsrRowMut<T>> {
         self.cs.get_lane_mut(index).map(|lane| CsrRowMut { lane })
     }
@@ -695,6 +696,7 @@ impl<'a, T> CsrRowMut<'a, T> {
 
     /// Returns a mutable entry for the given global column index.
     #[inline]
+    #[must_use]
     pub fn get_entry_mut(&mut self, global_col_index: usize) -> Option<SparseEntryMut<T>> {
         self.lane.get_entry_mut(global_col_index)
     }
diff --git a/src/base/indexing.rs b/src/base/indexing.rs
index 9ddf8776..5bc06020 100644
--- a/src/base/indexing.rs
+++ b/src/base/indexing.rs
@@ -496,6 +496,7 @@ impl<T: Scalar, R: Dim, C: Dim, S: Storage<T, R, C>> Matrix<T, R, C, S> {
     /// Produces a mutable view of the data at the given index, or
     /// `None` if the index is out of bounds.
     #[inline]
+    #[must_use]
     pub fn get_mut<'a, I>(&'a mut self, index: I) -> Option<I::OutputMut>
     where
         S: StorageMut<T, R, C>,
@@ -540,6 +541,7 @@ impl<T: Scalar, R: Dim, C: Dim, S: Storage<T, R, C>> Matrix<T, R, C, S> {
     /// Returns a mutable view of the data at the given index, without doing
     /// any bounds checking.
     #[inline]
+    #[must_use]
     pub unsafe fn get_unchecked_mut<'a, I>(&'a mut self, index: I) -> I::OutputMut
     where
         S: StorageMut<T, R, C>,
diff --git a/src/base/matrix.rs b/src/base/matrix.rs
index 6d2468bb..5214bb6f 100644
--- a/src/base/matrix.rs
+++ b/src/base/matrix.rs
@@ -1266,6 +1266,7 @@ impl<T: Scalar, D: Dim, S: Storage<T, D>> Vector<T, D, S> {
 impl<T: Scalar, D: Dim, S: StorageMut<T, D>> Vector<T, D, S> {
     /// Gets a mutable reference to the i-th element of this column vector without bound checking.
     #[inline]
+    #[must_use]
     pub unsafe fn vget_unchecked_mut(&mut self, i: usize) -> &mut T {
         debug_assert!(i < self.nrows(), "Vector index out of bounds.");
         let i = i * self.strides().0;
@@ -1285,6 +1286,7 @@ impl<T: Scalar, R: Dim, C: Dim, S: ContiguousStorage<T, R, C>> Matrix<T, R, C, S
 impl<T: Scalar, R: Dim, C: Dim, S: ContiguousStorageMut<T, R, C>> Matrix<T, R, C, S> {
     /// Extracts a mutable slice containing the entire matrix entries ordered column-by-columns.
     #[inline]
+    #[must_use]
     pub fn as_mut_slice(&mut self) -> &mut [T] {
         self.data.as_mut_slice()
     }
diff --git a/src/geometry/point.rs b/src/geometry/point.rs
index 89db12cc..d25b4d7c 100644
--- a/src/geometry/point.rs
+++ b/src/geometry/point.rs
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ impl<T: Scalar, const D: usize> Point<T, D> {
 
     /// Gets a mutable reference to i-th element of this point without bound-checking.
     #[inline]
+    #[must_use]
     pub unsafe fn get_unchecked_mut(&mut self, i: usize) -> &mut T {
         self.coords.vget_unchecked_mut(i)
     }